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Sustainable urban development

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 222-0409/02
Abbreviation URM
Course title Sustainable urban development
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Urban Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. arch. Dagmar Kutá, Ph.D.,MSc.,MBA

Subject syllabus

syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction to the Problem, Explanation of Basic Concepts, Complete History, Legislation of the Czech Republic
2. Urbanism as one of the tools of spatial planning
3. Targets and tasks of spatial planning, land-use planning documents, Territorial Development Policy of the Czech Republic, Territorial Use Limits
4. Types of land-use planning documentation - their purpose
5. Territorial planning documentation - procurement, approval and liability
6. Territorial Decisions and Measures, Building Management, Expropriation
7. Application of general technical requirements of territorial character for construction (types of constructions, barrier-free structures, their placement, influence on the environment)
8. Spatial layout of technical management networks, representation in land-use planning documentation
9. Protection of the Free Landscape, Agricultural Soil Fund, Forests, Territorial System of Environmental Stability
10. Protective zones and protected areas (types of protection in total, protection zones of mineral deposits, natural resources and spa, water resources and water structures, transport structures, airports, utility networks, construction industry and agriculture)
11. Protection of particularly valuable areas - protection of immovable cultural monuments, monumentally protected areas, protection of nature and landscape
12. Developmental tendencies in spatial planning, strategic plans of the exercise curriculum

syllabus of pratcical lessons:
1. Getting acquainted with map data for spatial planning purposes, discussion of concepts in spatial planning
2. Used signs in the graphic part of the spatial plans, film - urban structure of important Czech cities
3. Examples of land-use planning documents and documentation-part graphical and text-discussion
4. Submission of seminar paper 1: to find out the basic data about the state of complete and condition of the territory in the place of residence, describe the individual components
5. Seminar work no. 1, consultations
6. Design of the area by family houses
7. Design of housing development by housing
8. Completion of proposals, consultation
9. Submission of seminar paper no.2: design of the area by residential construction including transport and technical infrastructure design, observance of limits in the territory
10. Written work of listeners - protection zones for water sources, for transport, engineering networks, protection of specially protected areas
11. Correction of written tests-repetition
12. Completion of the seminar work no. 2 - consultation, surrender

E-learning

LMS Moodle: 222-0409/02 Sustainable urban development

Literature

HALL, P., TEWDWR-JONES, M.: Urban and regional planning. 5th ed. New York: Routledge, c2011. ISBN 978-0415566520 .

MADANIPOUR, A.: Cities in time: temporary urbanism and the future of the city. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4742-2071-2 .

JACOBS, J.: The death and life of great American cities. 50th anniversary ed. New York: Modern Library, 2011. ISBN 978-0-679-64433-0 .

SONG, H., SRINIVASAN R., SOOKOOR T., JESCHKE S., ed.: Smart cities: foundations, principles, and applications. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2017. ISBN 978-1-119-22639-0 .

TIWARI, G., MOHAN G., ed.: Transport planning & traffic safety: making cities, roads, & vehicles safer. Boca Raton: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4987-5145-2 .

Advised literature

GIROUARD, M.: Cities & people: a social and architectural history. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0300035025 .